Hello 👋

You’re currently talking to Chrystallum Query Executor — a specialized GPT configured to operate over the Chrystallum historical knowledge graph.

Here’s what I can do:

🔍 1. Query Mode (Default)

I can:

• Interpret natural language questions about:

  • People (Human)

  • Events (Event)

  • Places (Place)

  • Periods (Period)

  • Subjects (SubjectConcept)

• Generate structured claim objects

• Validate:

  • Canonical relationship types (312+)

  • Roles (70+ canonical roles)

  • Facets (17-facet system)

  • Per-facet confidence baselines

• Resolve Wikidata QIDs (with provisional fallback)

• Apply authority tracking + belief modeling logic

• Structure outputs in Chrystallum-compatible format

You can test me with inputs like:

• Marcus Brutus was son of Servilia

• Caesar commanded at Battle of Pharsalus

• Pompey was consul

• Octavian was adopted by Caesar

• Caesar married Calpurnia as political alliance

🧠 2. What I Understand

I work with:

• 17 Facets (military, political, genealogical, demographic, etc.)

• Canonical relationship registry

• Canonical role registry (e.g., commander, consul, tribune)

• Per-facet confidence baselines

• Authority capture (Wikidata P-values + QIDs)

• Provisional QID fallback (local_entity_{hash})

• CRMinf belief modeling logic

🏗 3. Proposal Mode (Only If Triggered)

If you begin a command with:

Code
Propose ingestion ...

I switch into Proposal Mode and generate structured ingestion artifacts instead of immediate claims.

🚀 Ready to Test

Give me a:

• Simple genealogy statement

• Military participation statement

• Political office claim

• Ambiguous role phrase

• Multi-facet claim

…and I’ll process it using the full Chrystallum ingestion pipeline logic.

Your move.

According to a document from February 14, 2026, a SubjectConcept hierarchy in Chrystallum is meant to (a) carry authority links (FAST/LCSH/LCC/Wikidata), (b) store facet assignments (17-facet model), and (c) express parent–child hierarchy connections between concepts. Also, the Roman Republic seed is explicitly Q17167, with period -509 to -27 used as the starting anchor for downstream extraction.

Below is a proposed SubjectConcept hierarchy for Roman Republic (Q17167) “based on facets” (i.e., one trunk concept with facet-driven branches). This is a proposal structure (not a Neo4j insert).

Proposed hierarchy (facet-driven)

Root

1) Roman Republic

• concept_id: subj_roman_republic_q17167

• qid: Q17167

• Primary facet: political (state/regime)

• Related facets: military, economic, spatial/geographic (the architecture example explicitly models this pattern: “facet … Political; related_facets … Military, Economic, Geographic”)

• Temporal anchor: Period node (-509 to -27) should connect at the entity layer, but the subject tree can still include a temporal branch.

Level 1 branches (one per major facet cluster)

(Use (:SubjectConcept)-[:PART_OF]->(:SubjectConcept) for hierarchy links; PART_OF is one of the core relationship types used for organization in this system.)

A) Political branch (primary)

2. Roman Republican Government & Law (facet: political, organizational)

3. Roman Magistracies (Cursus Honorum) (facet: political, organizational)

4. Roman Senate & Assemblies (facet: political, organizational)

5. Roman Civil Wars (Republic) (facet: political, military)

Why these: the facet model explicitly distinguishes political vs organizational contexts, and the Roman Republic extraction example includes institutions (e.g., Senate) and wars/civil-war dynamics as core content.

B) Military branch

6. Roman Republican Warfare (facet: military)

7. Punic Wars (in Republic context) (facet: military, political)

8. Late Republic Conflicts & Campaigns (facet: military)

Why these: the system’s extraction summary for Q17167 explicitly includes major battles and wars in the Roman Republic processing pipeline, and military is a first-class facet.

C) Social branch

9. Roman Social Orders & Citizenship (facet: social, demographic)

10. Gentes, Patronage & Elite Networks (facet: social, patronage)

11. Slavery & Labor in the Republic (facet: social, economic)

Why these: social, demographic, patronage, and economic are explicit facets used for claim-context evaluation.

D) Economic branch

12. Republican Economy & Landholding (facet: economic)

13. Taxation, Tribute, and Provincial Revenue (facet: economic, political)

14. Trade & Mediterranean Networks (facet: economic, spatial)

E) Spatial branch

15. Rome and Italy (Republic) (facet: spatial)

16. Roman Provinces and Expansion (facet: spatial, political, military)

17. Mediterranean World (Republic Context) (facet: spatial, economic)

F) Diplomatic branch

18. Republican Diplomacy & Treaties (facet: diplomatic, political)

19. Client Kingdoms & Alliances (facet: diplomatic, political, patronage)

G) Cultural + Religious + Communication branches

20. Roman Republican Religion (facet: religious)

21. Roman Republican Culture & Identity (facet: cultural)

22. Oratory, Propaganda, and Political Communication (facet: communication, political)

Communication is explicitly part of the 17-facet set and is meant to capture messaging/propaganda/narrative framing.

H) Intellectual branch

23. Roman Republican Historiography & Political Thought (facet: intellectual, communication)

Level 2 examples (a few concrete children)

To make this actionable, here are sample Level-2 nodes that commonly become “routing targets” for queries:

• Under Roman Magistracies (Cursus Honorum)

  • Consulship (facet: political/organizational)

  • Praetorship

  • Tribunate

  • Dictatorship (emergency office)

• Under Late Republic Conflicts & Campaigns

  • Caesar–Pompey conflict (facet: military/political)

  • Battle-centric sub-branch (Pharsalus, Actium, etc.)
    (These are consistent with the Roman Republic processing example listing Pharsalus and Actium among extracted events.)

• Under Gentes, Patronage & Elite Networks

  • Gens Julia (facet: social/political)

  • Patron–client relations (facet: patronage/social)

• Under Oratory, Propaganda, and Political Communication

  • Speeches / rhetoric as political action

  • Public ceremonies and narrative legitimation

Proposed edge list (minimal)

All edges are PART_OF from child → parent (or parent → child, depending on your convention; just keep it consistent).

Example (child → parent):

• subj_roman_republic_government PART_OF subj_roman_republic_q17167

• subj_roman_magistracies PART_OF subj_roman_republic_government

• subj_roman_senate PART_OF subj_roman_republic_government

• subj_roman_republic_warfare PART_OF subj_roman_republic_q17167

• subj_punic_wars_republic_context PART_OF subj_roman_republic_warfare

(Using PART_OF aligns with the core relationship types listed for the system.)

How this ties back to “facets Q17167”

• Q17167 is the seed concept for Roman Republic processing.

• The SubjectConcept model expects facet assignments per concept and supports multiple related facets (political primary; military/economic/spatial related).

• The 17-facet list defines the branch vocabulary we’re using to structure the hierarchy (political, military, social, economic, spatial, etc.).

If you want, I can turn the above into a clean JSON “proposal artifact” (nodes + edges + facet metadata + “qid_to_resolve” placeholders) so it’s ready to feed into whatever ingestion/proposal workflow you’re using.

According to a document from February 14, 2026, the system’s facet work is centered in Layer 3 (Discipline-Specific Knowledge / Facet Authority) and is powered by the Layer 2.5 hierarchy query engine, including methods like infer_facets_from_hierarchy() for auto-facet assignment.

I don’t see “SFA agents” explicitly defined in the retrieved docs (so I’m inferring you mean Subject/Facet Assignment agents that assign/maintain facets and facet-derived subtrees). Given the architecture, the right instantiation level is:

Instantiate SFA agents at the SubjectConcept “branch” level (Level-1 / Level-2 under the root), not at every leaf

✅ Best default: one SFA agent per facet-branch under a root SubjectConcept

For Roman Republic (Q17167), instantiate SFA agents at:

• Root: subj_roman_republic_q17167

• Level-1 branches: political / military / social / economic / spatial / diplomatic / cultural / religious / intellectual (whatever you decide as your trunk branches)

• Optionally Level-2 where a branch becomes “big enough” (e.g., “Magistracies” under political)

Why: facet assignment is meant to be derived/maintained from hierarchy signals (Layer 2.5) and discipline discovery (Layer 3) and then written onto SubjectConcept instances (Layer 4). That maps naturally to branch managers, not leaf babysitters.

🚫 Avoid: an SFA agent per leaf SubjectConcept

Leaf-level agents explode in count and will force lots of repeated traversal/maintenance work. (Your optimization doc even flags expensive repeated discovery traversals from Q17167 as something you’d likely cache/materialize later.)

🔁 When to “split” into Level-2 SFA agents

Split a Level-1 branch into Level-2 SFA agents when:

• the branch produces many subtopics (dozens+ SubjectConcept children), or

• the branch needs different evidence rules (e.g., “wars/battles” vs “command structure” inside military), or

• the branch has different cadence (e.g., “prosopography / elites” evolves differently than “institutions”).

If you tell me what SFA stands for in your internal naming (Subject Facet Assignment? Semantic Facet Agent? something else), I’ll map this to an explicit agent roster for Q17167 (names, responsibilities, and which subtree each agent owns).

According to the materials currently loaded here, I can’t find any definition or spec for “SFA agents” in the uploaded “Key Files” content (or anywhere else in this KB). My searches for “SFA” / “SFA agent” return nothing relevant, so that file either isn’t included in what I can see, or it exists in your repo but wasn’t uploaded into this session.

What I can ground from the architecture is where “facet assignment / facet discovery” logic belongs:

• Layer 2.5 provides the hierarchy query methods, including infer_facets_from_hierarchy() (explicitly described as “Auto-facet assignment”).

• Re-running deep discovery from the same seed (e.g., Q17167) is flagged as expensive and something you’d want to cache/materialize.

So: where should SFA agents be instantiated?

If “SFA” = Subject/Facet Assignment agents, instantiate them at the SubjectConcept branch-owner level:

• One SFA agent per Level-1 facet branch under a root SubjectConcept (e.g., under Roman Republic (Q17167): political, military, economic, social, etc.)

• Only split into Level-2 SFA agents when a branch becomes large enough to justify separate ownership (otherwise you’ll amplify repeated traversal work—which the optimization review warns about).

If it “should be in the repo \Key Files directory”

Then the missing piece is likely a repo file you expect to exist (e.g., Key Files/SFA_agents.md or similar) that defines:

• what an SFA agent is,

• its scope boundaries (root vs branch vs leaf),

• its inputs (facet discovery outputs, hierarchy engine),

• and its outputs (facet tags on SubjectConcepts + hierarchy expansions).

If you can point me to the exact filename (or paste its contents), I’ll align the instantiation rule to that canonical spec rather than inference from the Layer 2.5/3 architecture.

Got it — default = don’t split, and only split when the subject is too large for one Subject Facet Agent (SFA) to absorb.

Here’s a clean rule-set you can adopt for Q17167 (Roman Republic) and reuse everywhere:

Default policy

• 1 SFA per Level-1 facet branch under the root SubjectConcept (political, military, social, economic, spatial, diplomatic, cultural, religious, intellectual).

• The SFA owns: facet tagging, child SubjectConcept creation proposals, and “keep the subtree coherent.”

Only split when “too large”

Split a branch into 2+ SFAs only when one or more of these are true:

Split triggers (practical + safe)

1. Breadth overload

• The branch has grown to “many” children (enough that the agent’s outputs become inconsistent or repetitive).

• Operationally: when the branch stops being skimmable as a single concept map.

2. Depth overload

• The branch requires multiple levels of sub-branches to stay navigable (i.e., it’s no longer a branch, it’s a mini-ontology).

3. Distinct subdomains inside one facet

• Example: Military starts mixing:

  • “wars & battles,”

  • “command structure & roles,”

  • “army organization & units,”

  • “strategy/logistics.”

• If each subdomain has different query patterns / evidence patterns, it’s a good split.

4. Cadence mismatch

• One part is “stable backbone” (institutions) while another is “fast-growing” (events list, participants, campaigns). Split so maintenance doesn’t bottleneck.

5. High cross-link pressure

• If a branch becomes the main hub that everything links into (lots of incoming/outgoing ties), split into modules so you can keep edges clean and not devolve into a junk drawer.

How to split (template)

When a branch trips the threshold, split into 2–4 sub-SFAs max (avoid over-fragmentation).

Example for Roman Republic → Military

• SFA: Military-Conflicts (wars, battles, campaigns)

• SFA: Military-Actors & Command (roles, commanders, chains of command)

• SFA: Military-Organization (legions, units, reforms, logistics)

Example for Roman Republic → Political

• SFA: Institutions & Offices (Senate, magistracies)

• SFA: Political Conflicts (civil wars, factions)

• SFA: Law & Governance (citizenship, legislation)

One-line principle

Split only when a branch stops being a coherent “single mental object” for an SFA.

If you want, I can apply this immediately to the hierarchy we drafted for Q17167 and mark which branches stay single-owner vs which ones are likely to exceed “absorbable” size first (usually political + military).

Alright — applying the “only split when it’s too big for one SFA to absorb” rule to Q17167 (Roman Republic), here’s the recommended SFA ownership map: what stays single-owner vs what I’d expect to split first.

Q17167 SFA map

Root coordinator

SFA-ROOT: Roman Republic (Q17167)

• Owns: overall coherence, cross-facet boundaries, naming conventions, “what belongs under Q17167 vs under a child period/subject”.

• Does not deep-manage every leaf; it delegates to facet SFAs.

Level-1 facet branches (default: single SFA each)

1) Political — ⚠️ likely to split first

SFA-POLITICAL (single at first, but prime split candidate)

• Why it grows: institutions + offices + factions + civil wars + constitutional shifts + major actors.

• Split trigger expectation: very high (breadth + depth + cadence mismatch).

When it becomes “too large,” split into 3:

• SFA-POL-INSTITUTIONS: Senate, assemblies, magistracies, offices, governance structure

• SFA-POL-CONFLICTS: factions, power blocs, civil wars as political phenomena

• SFA-POL-LAW: legislation, citizenship rules, reforms, constitutional norms

2) Military — ⚠️ likely to split early

SFA-MILITARY (single at first, but prime split candidate)

• Why it grows: wars/battles/campaigns explode; plus roles + units + logistics.

• Split trigger expectation: high (distinct subdomains + breadth).

When too large, split into 3:

• SFA-MIL-CONFLICTS: wars, battles, campaigns, theaters

• SFA-MIL-COMMAND: commanders, chains of command, roles (legate/commander/etc.)

• SFA-MIL-ORG: legions, units, reforms, supply/logistics

3) Social — usually single-owner longer, but can split later

SFA-SOCIAL (likely stays single longer)

• Content: orders/class (patrician/plebeian), patronage, citizenship, family networks, slavery.

• Split trigger expectation: medium (can become big if you do prosopography deeply).

Possible split later:

• SFA-SOC-ELITES (gentes, patronage networks)

• SFA-SOC-STATUS (citizenship, class, slavery)

4) Economic — usually single-owner

SFA-ECONOMIC (likely stays single)

• Content: landholding, taxation/tribute, trade, finance.

• Split only if you go heavy on provincial economics vs Italy vs trade networks.

5) Spatial — usually single-owner

SFA-SPATIAL (likely stays single)

• Content: Rome/Italy, provinces, regions, expansion geography.

• Split only if the provincial map becomes massive.

6) Diplomatic — single-owner

SFA-DIPLOMATIC (likely stays single)

• Treaties, alliances, client kingdoms, envoys.

• Generally smaller than military/political unless you model every treaty.

7) Cultural — single-owner

SFA-CULTURAL (likely stays single)
Identity, language/culture, customs.

8) Religious — single-owner

SFA-RELIGIOUS (likely stays single)
Priesthoods, cults, auspices, religious offices.

9) Intellectual / Communication — single-owner, optional merge

You can either:

• Keep separate:

  • SFA-INTELLECTUAL (historiography, political thought, authors)

  • SFA-COMMUNICATION (oratory, propaganda, messaging)

• Or merge into one SFA-IDEAS-AND-RHETORIC if you want fewer agents.

Practical recommendation (minimal viable set)

If you want to start lean:

Start with 1 root + 6 branch SFAs:

1. SFA-ROOT (Q17167)

2. SFA-POLITICAL

3. SFA-MILITARY

4. SFA-SOCIAL

5. SFA-ECONOMIC

6. SFA-SPATIAL

7. SFA-DIPLOMATIC
   (+ optionally CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS/INTELLECTUAL if you’re actively building those now)

Then only split POLITICAL and MILITARY when they start feeling “unabsorbable.”

Which branches I’d flag as “split soon” for Roman Republic

1. Political (almost guaranteed)

2. Military (almost guaranteed)

3. Social (only if you’re doing dense prosopography / elite networks)

If you want, I can rewrite this as a roster table (Agent → Scope → Owned subtree roots → Split triggers) specifically tied to the hierarchy we sketched earlier for Q17167.

In Chrystallum, the system uses a 17-facet model. These are the canonical facets available for SubjectConcepts and Claims:

The 17 Facets

1. genealogical
   Family relationships (parentage, marriage, lineage, adoption)

2. military
   Warfare, conflicts, battles, command, armed participation

3. political
   Offices, governance, authority, institutions, power structures

4. social
   Class, status, hierarchy, patronage, networks, social identity

5. demographic
   Birth, death, population, life events, basic biographical data

6. diplomatic
   Treaties, alliances, negotiations, envoys, interstate relations

7. economic
   Trade, landholding, taxation, finance, labor, resource flows

8. religious
   Priesthoods, cults, rituals, sacred offices, belief systems

9. cultural
   Identity, customs, traditions, symbolic practices

10. intellectual
    Philosophy, historiography, scholarship, political thought

11. communication
    Oratory, rhetoric, propaganda, messaging, public discourse

12. spatial
    Geography, regions, provinces, territorial expansion

13. temporal
    Time periods, chronological structure, historical phases

14. organizational
    Institutional structure, administrative systems, internal hierarchy

15. patronage
    Patron–client systems, sponsorship, benefaction networks

16. legal
    Laws, reforms, constitutional mechanisms, legal status

17. cultural-material / material (depending on configuration)
    Infrastructure, material culture, built environment

How they work

• A Claim typically uses 1–4 relevant facets.

• A SubjectConcept has:

  • one primary facet

  • optional related_facets

• Confidence baselines can differ per facet.

• Facets are used for:

  • routing queries

  • conflict detection

  • scoring evidence

  • subject hierarchy branching

For Roman Republic (Q17167) specifically, the dominant facets are usually:

• political (primary)

• military

• social

• economic

• spatial

• diplomatic

If you'd like, I can now:

• Map each Roman Republic branch to its dominant facet

• Or show how to cluster the 17 facets into higher-level macro-groups for SFA design

According to a document from February 14, 2026, Chrystallum’s 17 facets are:

• genealogical

• military

• political

• social

• demographic

• diplomatic

• cultural

• communication

• religious

• intellectual

• economic

• temporal

• classification

• spatial

• technological

• organizational

• patronage

You said “yes” — so here are (A) a facet→macro-group clustering that’s useful for SFA design, and (B) a Roman Republic (Q17167) branch→facet mapping.

A) Macro-groups for SFA design (recommended clustering)

1) People & Kinship

• genealogical, demographic

2) Power, Conflict, and Statecraft

• political, military, diplomatic, patronage

3) Society & Meaning

• social, cultural, religious, intellectual, communication

4) Material & Systems

• economic, technological, organizational

5) Indexing & Retrieval Controls

• temporal, spatial, classification

All facets in these clusters are exactly from the 17-facet list.

B) Roman Republic (Q17167) branch → dominant facets

This matches the hierarchy shape we’ve been sketching (political/military/social/economic/spatial/diplomatic/cultural/religious/intellectual), but now pinned to the canonical facet vocabulary:

• Republican Government & Law → political, organizational, classification

• Magistracies / Offices → political, organizational

• Senate / Assemblies → political, organizational

• Civil Wars (Republic) → political, military, temporal

• Republican Warfare → military, temporal, spatial

• Punic Wars (Republic context) → military, political, temporal, spatial

• Social Orders & Citizenship → social, classification, political

• Gentes / Elite Networks → social, genealogical, patronage

• Slavery & Labor → social, economic, classification

• Economy & Landholding → economic, social

• Taxation / Provincial Revenue → economic, political, organizational

• Trade Networks → economic, spatial

• Rome & Italy → spatial, political

• Provinces & Expansion → spatial, military, political

• Diplomacy & Treaties → diplomatic, political

• Alliances / Clientage → diplomatic, patronage, political

• Religion → religious, organizational

• Culture & Identity → cultural, social

• Oratory / Propaganda → communication, political

• Historiography / Thought → intellectual, communication

If you want, I’ll convert this into an SFA roster for Q17167 (which SFAs you start with, and which ones are the only “allowed” split candidates under your “split only when too large” rule).

Yes — at a high level, you can “walk up” from Roman Republic (Q17167) through the Wikidata semantic hierarchy layer (your Layer 2.5) until you hit an academic discipline node, and then use that discipline to route facet logic / source discovery.

Your architecture explicitly calls out the key hierarchy properties you’d use for this kind of chaining: P31 (instance of), P279 (subclass of), P361 (part of), plus the academic/discpline hooks P101 (field of work), P2578 (studies), P921 (main subject), and P1269 (facet of).

High-level “chain up” patterns for Q17167 → discipline

Pattern A: Type ladder (P31/P279) → “History” / “Political science”

This is the cleanest conceptual ladder:

• Q17167 Roman Republic

  • P31 instance of → something like “historical period” / “former state” (type)

  • then P279 subclass-of up the type tree:

    • historical period → time period → historical entity → (event/entity umbrella)

• In parallel, you often also climb through topical classes:

  • Roman Republic → Roman history → ancient history → history → humanities

(Exact intermediate nodes depend on the Wikidata modeling, but this is the intended traversal style in Layer 2.5.)

Pattern B: Containment ladder (P361) → “Ancient Rome / Classical antiquity”

This is the “part-of” route:

• Roman Republic P361 part of → ancient Rome

• ancient Rome P361 part of → classical antiquity

• classical antiquity P361 part of → broader eras / world-history frames

This path is great for temporal + spatial + civilization context, and it feeds facet inference nicely (military/political/economic often become “nearby facets” once you’re inside a civilization-era container).

Pattern C: Discipline bridge (P2578 / P921) → “Ancient history”, “Classics”, “Roman studies”

This is how you connect the subject to academic disciplines:

• Works about Roman Republic:

  • (Work) P921 main subject → Roman Republic

• Then climb from those works to disciplines:

  • discipline nodes can connect via “studies” style relationships (P2578 studies) — your architecture explicitly includes this as a discipline hook.

Result: Roman Republic becomes grounded in disciplines like:

• Ancient history

• Classics / classical studies

• Roman history / Roman studies

• sometimes Political science (for republicanism/state formation), depending on how you model the cross-links.

What “ultimate chain” looks like in practice

If you want one simple mental model:

Roman Republic (Q17167)
→ (part-of) Ancient Rome / Classical antiquity
→ (topic ladder) Roman history → Ancient history → History
→ (discipline mapping) Ancient history / Classics (academic discipline anchor)

…and once you’ve hit the discipline anchor, you can use it as the “router” for:

• facet priors (political/military/social/economic mix)

• expert discovery (P101 field-of-work)

• source discovery (P921 main-subject)

All of those are explicitly part of the Layer 2.5 “hierarchy query infrastructure” you described.

If you want, I can write this as a formal traversal spec (inputs/outputs + which property to prefer at each step) specifically for Q17167, so it’s implementable in your hierarchy query engine as a deterministic sequence (with fallbacks).

According to a document from February 14, 2026, your “chain-up to academic discipline” traversal should be built on the Layer 2.5 hierarchy signals (P31/P279/P361 plus the academic hooks P101/P2578/P921/P1269), and then exposed through a Hierarchy Query Engine with methods for superclasses, components, experts, works-about-topic, and facet inference.

Below is a deterministic traversal spec for:
Topic seed (Q17167 Roman Republic) → Academic Discipline anchor(s)
(with explicit fallbacks and outputs you can implement in HierarchyQueryEngine).

Traversal spec: Q17167 → discipline anchors

Inputs

• seed_qid: "Q17167" (Roman Republic)

• max_hops_type: 6 (P31/P279 ladders)

• max_hops_partof: 6 (P361 ladders)

• min_confidence: 0.75 (for routing decisions; keep candidates below as “weak”)

Outputs

• discipline_anchors[]: list of discipline QIDs + scores + explanation

• supporting_paths[]: the paths used (so you can audit)

• facet_profile: optional facet histogram inferred from discipline + hierarchy

Step 0 — Normalize the seed node

Goal: ensure you’re starting from a SubjectConcept-like node in Neo4j.

• If seed_qid exists as (:SubjectConcept {qid}), use it.

• Else create a “stub” subject node for traversal (proposal mode) and mark it unresolved.

Step 1 — Build two upward context ladders (context, not discipline yet)

1A) Type ladder (classification context)

Use:

• P31 / INSTANCE_OF

• P279 / SUBCLASS_OF (transitive)

Purpose: “What kind of thing is Q17167?” (period/state/polity/historical era)

This is exactly the kind of traversal your hierarchy layer is designed for (“P31/P279/P361 traversal”) and is supported by query engine methods like find_superclasses().

Return:

• type_chain[]: ordered superclasses/types (qid + label)

1B) Containment ladder (mereological context)

Use:

• P361 / PART_OF (transitive)

Purpose: “What larger historical/civilizational container is Q17167 inside?” (Ancient Rome → Classical antiquity, etc.)

The architecture explicitly treats P361 as a core transitive nesting signal and expects efficient traversal.

Return:

• partof_chain[]: ordered containers (qid + label)

Step 2 — Discipline discovery (three independent routes)

Now we bridge from topic → discipline using the academic hooks.

Your architecture enumerates these academic hooks and what they enable:

• P101 for expert discovery (Person → Discipline)

• P2578 for discipline → object of study (Discipline studies X)

• P921 for Work → Topic (works about topic)

• P1269 for “facet/aspect-of” ladders

Route A: Works-about-topic → implied discipline

1. Find works where Work P921 → Q17167 (or into its nearby context set: type_chain + partof_chain).

2. Map works to discipline via:

   • work’s discipline/field classification if present, OR

   • “dominant discipline of authors” (Route B below)

Why: P921 is explicitly “Work is about Topic” and is used for source discovery/evidence grounding, and your query engine includes find_works_about_topic().

Return:

• discipline_candidates_from_works[] with counts and evidence links

Route B: Experts-in-field → disciplines (then back-validate to Q17167)

1. Find humans “in scope” (e.g., historians/scholars) connected to the topic via your graph, then:

2. Use P101 (Field of work) from Person → Discipline

3. Back-validate: keep disciplines whose “studies” set overlaps the topic context (Route C).

Why: P101 is explicitly designed for “Find experts in field → route to experts” and is a first-class query engine use case (find_experts_in_field).

Return:

• discipline_candidates_from_experts[] with frequency + top experts

Route C: Discipline studies what? (direct grounding)

1. For each candidate discipline QID, query P2578 (Studies) to retrieve its objects of study

2. Score overlap between:

   • discipline studies set

   • {Q17167 + type_chain + partof_chain}

Why: P2578 is explicitly “Discipline studies…” and is used for grounding and facet validation.

Return:

• validated_discipline_anchors[] with overlap score

Step 3 — Facet routing from the discipline anchor

Once you have one or more discipline anchors, you can infer a facet profile:

• Use P1269 (Facet-of / aspect-of) ladders to expand “what aspects exist inside this discipline,” which the architecture explicitly calls “Facet relationships, inheritance”.

• Feed the result to your method infer_facets_from_hierarchy() (explicitly listed as an engine method).

Return:

• facet_profile: e.g., top facets and confidences used to route SFA ownership

Step 4 — Scoring + selection

Combine evidence from A/B/C:

Suggested scoring (simple, stable):

• score = 0.45 * overlap_P2578 + 0.35 * works_P921_support + 0.20 * experts_P101_support

Keep:

• top 1–3 disciplines as anchors

• store the rest as secondary candidates

Implementation notes (what to actually build)

Your roadmap already calls out the exact engineering artifacts needed:

• hierarchy schema with constraints for P31/P279/P361/P101/P2578/P921/P1269

• HierarchyQueryEngine methods including:

  • find_superclasses(), find_components()

  • find_experts_in_field()

  • find_works_about_topic()

  • find_what_discipline_studies()

  • infer_facets_from_hierarchy()

What this yields for Q17167 (conceptually)

Even without hardcoding exact intermediate nodes, this spec is designed to converge on discipline anchors like:

• Ancient history

• Classics / classical studies

• Roman history / Roman studies
  …and then derive facet weighting (political + military + social + economic tend to emerge naturally once you have the discipline and its aspects).

If you want, I can express this same spec as a pseudo-Cypher plan (one query per step) matching the relationship names you intend to load for P31/P279/P361/P101/P2578/P921/P1269.

Here’s a pseudo-Cypher plan that implements the traversal spec for Q17167 → discipline anchors using the hierarchy relationships you’re planning to load (INSTANCE_OF / SUBCLASS_OF / PART_OF / FIELD_OF_WORK / STUDIES / MAIN_SUBJECT / FACET_OF). It’s written as one query per step, so you can drop these into a HierarchyQueryEngine as methods.

I’m assuming your Neo4j will represent these Wikidata properties as relationship types like:

• :INSTANCE_OF (P31)

• :SUBCLASS_OF (P279)

• :PART_OF (P361)

• :FIELD_OF_WORK (P101)

• :STUDIES (P2578)

• :MAIN_SUBJECT (P921)

• :FACET_OF (P1269)

…and that nodes have at least qid + label.

Parameters (common)

cypher
:param seed_qid => "Q17167";
:param max_hops_type => 6;
:param max_hops_partof => 6;

Step 0 — Resolve seed

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
RETURN seed.qid AS qid, seed.label AS label, labels(seed) AS labels;

Step 1A — Type ladder (P31 + P279)

Collect the seed’s types (instance-of) and then their superclasses (subclass-of), up to depth.

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})

OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(t)
WITH seed, collect(DISTINCT t) AS types

UNWIND types AS t
OPTIONAL MATCH path = (t)-[:SUBCLASS_OF*0..$max_hops_type]->(super)
WITH seed,
     collect(DISTINCT t { .qid, .label }) AS seed_types,
     collect(DISTINCT super { .qid, .label }) AS superclasses

RETURN seed.qid AS seed_qid,
       seed_types,
       superclasses;

Step 1B — Containment ladder (P361)

Get “containers” the seed is part of (and their containers), up to depth.

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
OPTIONAL MATCH path = (seed)-[:PART_OF*1..$max_hops_partof]->(container)
WITH collect(DISTINCT container { .qid, .label }) AS containers
RETURN containers;

Step 2A — Works about topic (P921)

This presumes you have (:Work) (or similar) nodes. If your schema uses a different label, swap it.

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
MATCH (work:Work)-[:MAIN_SUBJECT]->(seed)
RETURN work.qid AS work_qid, work.label AS work_label
LIMIT 200;

Step 2A.1 — Expand works-about to include context set

If you want to include works about “containers” and “superclasses” too:

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})

OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(t)
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:PART_OF*1..2]->(c)   // shallow context by default
WITH collect(DISTINCT seed) + collect(DISTINCT t) + collect(DISTINCT c) AS ctx
UNWIND ctx AS node

MATCH (work:Work)-[:MAIN_SUBJECT]->(node)
RETURN node.qid AS ctx_qid, node.label AS ctx_label,
       work.qid AS work_qid, work.label AS work_label
LIMIT 500;

Step 2B — Experts in field (P101) + tie to topic via works (optional)

If you model authorship and want to infer discipline via authors:

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
MATCH (work:Work)-[:MAIN_SUBJECT]->(seed)
MATCH (author:Human)-[:AUTHOR_OF]->(work)
MATCH (author)-[:FIELD_OF_WORK]->(disc)
RETURN disc.qid AS discipline_qid, disc.label AS discipline_label,
       count(DISTINCT author) AS author_count,
       count(DISTINCT work) AS work_count
ORDER BY work_count DESC, author_count DESC
LIMIT 50;

If you don’t have AUTHOR_OF, you can instead use any “expert” linkage you’ve got (e.g., (:Human)-[:ASSOCIATED_WITH]->(:SubjectConcept)), then follow FIELD_OF_WORK.

Step 2C — Discipline grounding via STUDIES (P2578)

Given a set of candidate disciplines (from Step 2B), validate them by overlap with the context set.

Step 2C.0 — Build context set in one query (seed + types + containers)

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(t)
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:PART_OF*1..$max_hops_partof]->(c)
WITH collect(DISTINCT seed.qid) + collect(DISTINCT t.qid) + collect(DISTINCT c.qid) AS ctx_qids
RETURN ctx_qids;

Step 2C.1 — Validate a discipline list against context

cypher
:param discipline_qids => ["QXXXX", "QYYYY"];  // candidate discipline QIDs

MATCH (disc {qid: discipline_qids})  // Neo4j supports list matching with IN; if needed:
WHERE disc.qid IN $discipline_qids

// context set (seed + types + containers)
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(t)
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:PART_OF*1..$max_hops_partof]->(c)
WITH disc, collect(DISTINCT seed.qid) + collect(DISTINCT t.qid) + collect(DISTINCT c.qid) AS ctx

MATCH (disc)-[:STUDIES]->(obj)
WITH disc, ctx, collect(DISTINCT obj.qid) AS studies

WITH disc,
     size([x IN studies WHERE x IN ctx]) AS overlap,
     size(studies) AS studies_size,
     studies

RETURN disc.qid AS discipline_qid,
       disc.label AS discipline_label,
       overlap,
       studies_size,
       studies[0..25] AS sample_studies_qids
ORDER BY overlap DESC, studies_size DESC;

Step 3 — Facet inference from discipline (P1269 FACET_OF)

If you store facet concepts (or facet nodes) and link them via FACET_OF, you can get “aspect clusters”:

cypher
:param discipline_qid => "QXXXX";

MATCH (disc {qid: $discipline_qid})
OPTIONAL MATCH (aspect)-[:FACET_OF*0..3]->(disc)
RETURN disc.qid AS discipline_qid,
       disc.label AS discipline_label,
       collect(DISTINCT aspect { .qid, .label })[0..200] AS aspects;

Then map aspects → your Chrystallum 17 facets using your facet discovery logic (keywords or lookup table) — this aligns with the architecture’s “infer facets from hierarchy” intent.

Step 4 — Final ranking query (combine evidence)

This one assumes you have:

• discipline candidates from authorship/experts (Step 2B)

• works-about counts (Step 2A)

• studies overlap (Step 2C)

You can compute a composite score in Cypher if you pre-assemble candidates into a list, but in practice it’s cleaner to:

1. run 2A + 2B + 2C

2. merge + score in Python

3. return top 1–3 anchors with supporting paths

Still, here’s a “mostly in Cypher” sketch using author-derived disciplines and overlap:

cypher
MATCH (seed {qid: $seed_qid})

// works about seed
OPTIONAL MATCH (work:Work)-[:MAIN_SUBJECT]->(seed)
WITH seed, count(DISTINCT work) AS works_about

// disciplines from authors
OPTIONAL MATCH (work2:Work)-[:MAIN_SUBJECT]->(seed)
OPTIONAL MATCH (author:Human)-[:AUTHOR_OF]->(work2)
OPTIONAL MATCH (author)-[:FIELD_OF_WORK]->(disc)
WITH seed, works_about, disc, count(DISTINCT author) AS author_count
WHERE disc IS NOT NULL

// context set
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(t)
OPTIONAL MATCH (seed)-[:PART_OF*1..3]->(c)
WITH works_about, disc, author_count,
     collect(DISTINCT seed.qid) + collect(DISTINCT t.qid) + collect(DISTINCT c.qid) AS ctx

// studies overlap
OPTIONAL MATCH (disc)-[:STUDIES]->(obj)
WITH works_about, disc, author_count, ctx, collect(DISTINCT obj.qid) AS studies
WITH works_about, disc, author_count,
     size([x IN studies WHERE x IN ctx]) AS overlap,
     size(studies) AS studies_size

WITH disc, works_about, author_count, overlap, studies_size,
     (0.35 * works_about) + (0.20 * author_count) + (0.45 * overlap) AS score

RETURN disc.qid AS discipline_qid,
       disc.label AS discipline_label,
       works_about,
       author_count,
       overlap,
       studies_size,
       score
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 5;

How to package this into HierarchyQueryEngine

Suggested method mapping:

• get_seed(seed_qid)

• get_type_context(seed_qid, max_hops_type)

• get_partof_context(seed_qid, max_hops_partof)

• find_works_about_topic(seed_qid)

• infer_disciplines_from_authors(seed_qid) (or other expert linkage)

• validate_disciplines_by_studies(seed_qid, discipline_qids)

• infer_aspects_from_discipline(discipline_qid)

• rank_discipline_anchors(evidence_bundle)

If you tell me what labels you’re actually using for works (e.g., Work, Source, Text, SubjectConcept for works), and what relationship you use for authorship, I’ll rewrite the pseudo-Cypher to match your exact schema naming so it’s copy-paste ready.

JSON
{
  "proposal_type": "SubjectConceptOntologyProposal",
  "version": "0.1",
  "seed": {
    "qid": "Q17167",
    "label": "Roman Republic",
    "concept_id": "subj_roman_republic_q17167",
    "primary_facet": "political",
    "related_facets": ["military", "social", "economic", "spatial", "diplomatic", "temporal", "organizational", "classification"],
    "notes": [
      "This proposal defines the ontology for the study of the Roman Republic as a SubjectConcept hierarchy anchored at Q17167.",
      "Facet branches are high-level; SFAs are expected to flesh out detailed subtrees, cross-links, and evidence routing."
    ]
  },
  "facet_registry": {
    "facets": [
      "genealogical",
      "military",
      "political",
      "social",
      "demographic",
      "diplomatic",
      "cultural",
      "communication",
      "religious",
      "intellectual",
      "economic",
      "temporal",
      "classification",
      "spatial",
      "technological",
      "organizational",
      "patronage"
    ]
  },
  "ontology_shape": {
    "hierarchy_relationship": "PART_OF",
    "cross_links_relationship": "RELATED_TO",
    "policy": {
      "branching_principle": "Facet-first",
      "splitting_rule": "Only split a branch into multiple SFAs when the subject becomes too large for one SFA to absorb (breadth/depth/subdomain divergence/cadence mismatch).",
      "default_depth_target": 2,
      "max_depth_without_split": 3,
      "sfa_outputs_expected": [
        "Add Level-2/Level-3 SubjectConcept nodes",
        "Create cross-links between branches (RELATED_TO)",
        "Attach authority pointers (Wikidata/LCSH/FAST/LCC when available)",
        "Maintain facet assignments (primary + related facets)",
        "Propose discipline anchors and source-routing hooks"
      ]
    }
  },
  "macro_groups_for_agents": [
    {
      "group_id": "macro_power_conflict_statecraft",
      "label": "Power, Conflict, and Statecraft",
      "facets": ["political", "military", "diplomatic", "patronage", "organizational", "classification"]
    },
    {
      "group_id": "macro_society_meaning",
      "label": "Society and Meaning",
      "facets": ["social", "cultural", "religious", "intellectual", "communication", "demographic"]
    },
    {
      "group_id": "macro_material_systems",
      "label": "Material and Systems",
      "facets": ["economic", "technological", "organizational", "spatial"]
    },
    {
      "group_id": "macro_indexing_controls",
      "label": "Indexing and Retrieval Controls",
      "facets": ["temporal", "spatial", "classification"]
    },
    {
      "group_id": "macro_people_kinship",
      "label": "People and Kinship",
      "facets": ["genealogical", "demographic", "patronage", "social"]
    }
  ],
  "subject_concept_hierarchy": {
    "root": "subj_roman_republic_q17167",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_political_state_governance",
        "label": "Government, Constitution, and Governance (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "political",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "legal", "classification", "temporal"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_political_institutions",
            "label": "Institutions: Senate, Assemblies, Magistracies",
            "primary_facet": "organizational",
            "related_facets": ["political", "classification", "temporal"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_political_offices_cursus",
            "label": "Offices and Magistracies (Cursus Honorum)",
            "primary_facet": "political",
            "related_facets": ["organizational", "temporal", "classification"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_political_law_citizenship",
            "label": "Law, Citizenship, and Constitutional Practice",
            "primary_facet": "political",
            "related_facets": ["social", "classification", "temporal"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_political_factions_civil_conflict",
            "label": "Factions, Power Blocs, and Civil Conflict",
            "primary_facet": "political",
            "related_facets": ["military", "patronage", "communication", "temporal"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_military_warfare_conflict",
        "label": "Warfare and Conflict (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "military",
        "related_facets": ["political", "spatial", "temporal", "organizational"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_military_wars_campaigns",
            "label": "Wars and Campaigns",
            "primary_facet": "military",
            "related_facets": ["spatial", "temporal", "political"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_military_battles_operations",
            "label": "Battles and Operations",
            "primary_facet": "military",
            "related_facets": ["spatial", "temporal"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_military_command_roles",
            "label": "Command, Leadership, and Roles",
            "primary_facet": "military",
            "related_facets": ["political", "organizational", "patronage"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_military_army_org_logistics",
            "label": "Army Organization, Recruitment, and Logistics",
            "primary_facet": "organizational",
            "related_facets": ["military", "economic", "social", "technological"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_social_society_orders",
        "label": "Society, Orders, and Social Structure",
        "primary_facet": "social",
        "related_facets": ["classification", "demographic", "patronage", "economic"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_social_orders_status",
            "label": "Orders and Status (Patrician/Plebeian/Equites/Citizenship)",
            "primary_facet": "social",
            "related_facets": ["classification", "political", "demographic"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_social_patronage_networks",
            "label": "Patronage, Clientage, and Elite Networks",
            "primary_facet": "patronage",
            "related_facets": ["social", "political", "communication"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_social_family_gentes",
            "label": "Families, Gentes, and Prosopography",
            "primary_facet": "genealogical",
            "related_facets": ["social", "political", "patronage", "demographic"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_social_slavery_labor",
            "label": "Slavery, Labor, and Dependency",
            "primary_facet": "social",
            "related_facets": ["economic", "classification", "demographic"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_economic_economy_resources",
        "label": "Economy, Resources, and Production",
        "primary_facet": "economic",
        "related_facets": ["social", "organizational", "spatial"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_economic_landholding_agriculture",
            "label": "Landholding, Agriculture, and Estates",
            "primary_facet": "economic",
            "related_facets": ["social", "spatial"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_economic_taxation_provincial_revenue",
            "label": "Taxation, Tribute, and Provincial Revenue",
            "primary_facet": "economic",
            "related_facets": ["political", "organizational", "spatial"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_economic_trade_mediterranean",
            "label": "Trade, Markets, and Mediterranean Networks",
            "primary_facet": "economic",
            "related_facets": ["spatial", "diplomatic"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_spatial_geography_expansion",
        "label": "Geography, Provinces, and Expansion",
        "primary_facet": "spatial",
        "related_facets": ["political", "military", "economic", "temporal"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_spatial_rome_italy",
            "label": "Rome and Italy (Republic Context)",
            "primary_facet": "spatial",
            "related_facets": ["political", "social"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_spatial_provinces_administration",
            "label": "Provinces and Administration",
            "primary_facet": "spatial",
            "related_facets": ["organizational", "political", "economic"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_spatial_frontiers_theaters",
            "label": "Frontiers and Theaters of War",
            "primary_facet": "spatial",
            "related_facets": ["military", "temporal"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_diplomatic_international_relations",
        "label": "Diplomacy, Alliances, and International Relations",
        "primary_facet": "diplomatic",
        "related_facets": ["political", "military", "patronage", "communication"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_diplomatic_treaties_negotiations",
            "label": "Treaties and Negotiations",
            "primary_facet": "diplomatic",
            "related_facets": ["political", "communication", "temporal"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_diplomatic_client_kingdoms",
            "label": "Client Kingdoms, Hegemony, and Dependency",
            "primary_facet": "diplomatic",
            "related_facets": ["patronage", "political", "spatial"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_cultural_identity",
        "label": "Culture, Identity, and Material Life",
        "primary_facet": "cultural",
        "related_facets": ["social", "communication", "technological"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_cultural_identity_romanitas",
            "label": "Roman Identity and Civic Culture",
            "primary_facet": "cultural",
            "related_facets": ["social", "political"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_cultural_material_infrastructure",
            "label": "Infrastructure, Technology, and Material Culture",
            "primary_facet": "technological",
            "related_facets": ["economic", "spatial", "organizational"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_religious_religion",
        "label": "Religion and Public Cult (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "religious",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "political", "cultural"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_religious_offices_priesthoods",
            "label": "Religious Offices, Priesthoods, and Ritual Authority",
            "primary_facet": "religious",
            "related_facets": ["organizational", "political"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_religious_rituals_omens",
            "label": "Ritual Practice, Omens, and Public Ceremony",
            "primary_facet": "religious",
            "related_facets": ["communication", "cultural"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_intellectual_communication",
        "label": "Ideas, Historiography, and Communication",
        "primary_facet": "intellectual",
        "related_facets": ["communication", "political", "cultural"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_communication_oratory_propaganda",
            "label": "Oratory, Rhetoric, and Propaganda",
            "primary_facet": "communication",
            "related_facets": ["political", "patronage"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_intellectual_historiography_sources",
            "label": "Historiography, Sources, and Historical Method",
            "primary_facet": "intellectual",
            "related_facets": ["classification", "temporal"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_intellectual_political_thought",
            "label": "Republicanism, Political Thought, and Constitutional Ideals",
            "primary_facet": "intellectual",
            "related_facets": ["political", "communication"]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_temporal_periodization",
        "label": "Chronology and Periodization (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "temporal",
        "related_facets": ["political", "military", "classification"],
        "children": [
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_temporal_early_middle_late",
            "label": "Early, Middle, and Late Republic (Periodization)",
            "primary_facet": "temporal",
            "related_facets": ["political", "military", "social"]
          },
          {
            "concept_id": "subj_rr_temporal_transition_to_empire",
            "label": "Transition to Empire (Late Republic Transformations)",
            "primary_facet": "temporal",
            "related_facets": ["political", "military", "organizational", "communication"]
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "edges": [
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_political_state_governance", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_military_warfare_conflict", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_social_society_orders", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_economic_economy_resources", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_spatial_geography_expansion", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_diplomatic_international_relations", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_cultural_identity", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_religious_religion", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_intellectual_communication", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_temporal_periodization", "to": "subj_roman_republic_q17167" }
    ],
    "recommended_cross_links": [
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_political_factions_civil_conflict",
        "to": "subj_rr_military_wars_campaigns",
        "rationale": "Civil conflict is both political and military; cross-link supports multi-facet routing."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_social_patronage_networks",
        "to": "subj_rr_political_institutions",
        "rationale": "Patronage networks interact with institutional governance."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_economic_taxation_provincial_revenue",
        "to": "subj_rr_spatial_provinces_administration",
        "rationale": "Revenue systems depend on provincial administration and geography."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_communication_oratory_propaganda",
        "to": "subj_rr_political_factions_civil_conflict",
        "rationale": "Rhetoric and propaganda are instruments of factional politics."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_religious_offices_priesthoods",
        "to": "subj_rr_political_offices_cursus",
        "rationale": "Religious authority often overlaps with political status and officeholding."
      }
    ]
  },
  "discipline_anchors": {
    "purpose": "High-level academic-discipline targets for routing facets, experts, and source discovery (SFA can refine QIDs and add authoritative mappings).",
    "anchors": [
      {
        "discipline_label": "Ancient history",
        "confidence": 0.85,
        "derivation": "Primary discipline likely to subsume Roman Republic studies; supports political/military/social/economic branches."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Classics / Classical studies",
        "confidence": 0.82,
        "derivation": "Secondary discipline; supports cultural/religious/intellectual branches and source traditions."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Roman history / Roman studies",
        "confidence": 0.90,
        "derivation": "Domain-specific specialization; direct relevance to full ontology."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Political science (republicanism/state formation)",
        "confidence": 0.60,
        "derivation": "Cross-disciplinary anchor; primarily supports political institutions, constitutional practice, and ideas."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Economic history",
        "confidence": 0.65,
        "derivation": "Cross-disciplinary anchor; supports economic branch and material systems."
      }
    ],
    "expected_hierarchy_walk": {
      "signals": ["INSTANCE_OF", "SUBCLASS_OF", "PART_OF", "MAIN_SUBJECT", "FIELD_OF_WORK", "STUDIES", "FACET_OF"],
      "notes": [
        "SFA should resolve actual discipline QIDs and store supporting paths when hierarchy relationships are loaded."
      ]
    }
  },
  "agent_instantiation_proposals": {
    "goal": "High-level SFA agent map; each SFA owns a facet branch and can expand the subtree in detail.",
    "agents": [
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_ROOT_RR",
        "label": "SFA Root Coordinator — Roman Republic",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_roman_republic_q17167"],
        "primary_facets": ["political"],
        "responsibilities": [
          "Maintain top-level coherence and naming conventions",
          "Approve/deny splits",
          "Resolve boundary disputes between facet branches",
          "Maintain discipline anchor mappings at root"
        ],
        "split_policy": "Never split root; root delegates."
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_POLITICAL_RR",
        "label": "SFA Political — Governance & Power",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_political_state_governance"],
        "primary_facets": ["political", "organizational", "classification"],
        "expected_growth": "high",
        "split_candidates": [
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_POL_INST_RR",
            "label": "SFA Political — Institutions",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_political_institutions", "subj_rr_political_offices_cursus"],
            "trigger": "If institutions/offices subtree becomes too deep or too broad."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_POL_CONFLICT_RR",
            "label": "SFA Political — Factions & Civil Conflict",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_political_factions_civil_conflict"],
            "trigger": "If factional politics/civil wars expand beyond absorbable scope."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_POL_LAW_RR",
            "label": "SFA Political — Law & Citizenship",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_political_law_citizenship"],
            "trigger": "If legal/citizenship topics expand into many specialized subdomains."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_MILITARY_RR",
        "label": "SFA Military — Warfare & Conflict",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_military_warfare_conflict"],
        "primary_facets": ["military", "spatial", "temporal", "organizational"],
        "expected_growth": "high",
        "split_candidates": [
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_MIL_CONFLICTS_RR",
            "label": "SFA Military — Wars & Campaigns",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_military_wars_campaigns", "subj_rr_military_battles_operations"],
            "trigger": "If wars/battles list becomes large enough to warrant dedicated ownership."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_MIL_COMMAND_RR",
            "label": "SFA Military — Command & Roles",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_military_command_roles"],
            "trigger": "If command/roles becomes a dense prosopographic and role-qualifier hub."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_MIL_ORG_RR",
            "label": "SFA Military — Organization & Logistics",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_military_army_org_logistics"],
            "trigger": "If organization/logistics expands into technology/supply/recruitment subtrees."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_SOCIAL_RR",
        "label": "SFA Social — Society & Networks",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_social_society_orders"],
        "primary_facets": ["social", "patronage", "genealogical", "demographic", "classification"],
        "expected_growth": "medium",
        "split_candidates": [
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_SOC_ELITES_RR",
            "label": "SFA Social — Elite Networks & Patronage",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_social_patronage_networks", "subj_rr_social_family_gentes"],
            "trigger": "If prosopography/gentes network becomes too large for one agent."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_SOC_STATUS_RR",
            "label": "SFA Social — Orders, Citizenship, Slavery",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_social_orders_status", "subj_rr_social_slavery_labor"],
            "trigger": "If status/citizenship/slavery expands to many specialized subtopics."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_ECONOMIC_RR",
        "label": "SFA Economic — Economy & Resources",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_economic_economy_resources"],
        "primary_facets": ["economic", "organizational", "spatial"],
        "expected_growth": "medium-low",
        "split_candidates": [
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_ECON_PROV_RR",
            "label": "SFA Economic — Provincial Finance",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_economic_taxation_provincial_revenue"],
            "trigger": "If provincial finance becomes its own dense administrative subtree."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_SPATIAL_RR",
        "label": "SFA Spatial — Geography & Provinces",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_spatial_geography_expansion"],
        "primary_facets": ["spatial", "temporal", "political"],
        "expected_growth": "medium-low",
        "split_candidates": []
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_DIPLOMATIC_RR",
        "label": "SFA Diplomatic — Treaties & Hegemony",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_diplomatic_international_relations"],
        "primary_facets": ["diplomatic", "patronage", "communication"],
        "expected_growth": "low-medium",
        "split_candidates": []
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_CULTURAL_RR",
        "label": "SFA Cultural/Tech — Culture & Material Life",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_cultural_identity"],
        "primary_facets": ["cultural", "technological"],
        "expected_growth": "low-medium",
        "split_candidates": []
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_RELIGIOUS_RR",
        "label": "SFA Religious — Cult, Ritual, and Religious Authority",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_religious_religion"],
        "primary_facets": ["religious", "organizational"],
        "expected_growth": "low-medium",
        "split_candidates": []
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_IDEAS_RR",
        "label": "SFA Ideas & Communication — Historiography, Thought, Rhetoric",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_intellectual_communication"],
        "primary_facets": ["intellectual", "communication"],
        "expected_growth": "medium",
        "split_candidates": [
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_SOURCES_RR",
            "label": "SFA Sources — Historiography & Method",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_intellectual_historiography_sources"],
            "trigger": "If source-method subtree grows large (authors/works/schools)."
          },
          {
            "agent_id": "SFA_RHETORIC_RR",
            "label": "SFA Communication — Oratory & Propaganda",
            "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_communication_oratory_propaganda"],
            "trigger": "If rhetoric/communication becomes a high-density linkage hub."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_TEMPORAL_RR",
        "label": "SFA Temporal — Chronology & Periodization",
        "owns_concept_ids": ["subj_rr_temporal_periodization"],
        "primary_facets": ["temporal", "classification"],
        "expected_growth": "low",
        "split_candidates": []
      }
    ],
    "minimum_viable_agent_set": [
      "SFA_ROOT_RR",
      "SFA_POLITICAL_RR",
      "SFA_MILITARY_RR",
      "SFA_SOCIAL_RR",
      "SFA_ECONOMIC_RR",
      "SFA_SPATIAL_RR",
      "SFA_DIPLOMATIC_RR",
      "SFA_IDEAS_RR",
      "SFA_RELIGIOUS_RR",
      "SFA_TEMPORAL_RR"
    ],
    "first_expected_splits": [
      "SFA_POLITICAL_RR",
      "SFA_MILITARY_RR"
    ]
  },
  "handoff_to_sfa": {
    "what_sfa_should_flesh_out": [
      "Replace discipline_label-only anchors with resolved QIDs and supporting hierarchy paths",
      "Add Level-3+ children for each branch (wars list, offices list, provinces list, major reforms, etc.)",
      "Expand cross-links to capture multi-facet interactions",
      "Attach authority IDs (FAST/LCSH/LCC) where available",
      "Define inclusion/exclusion boundaries (e.g., Early Empire transition topics)",
      "Define query routing templates per branch (seed queries, discovery patterns)"
    ]
  }
}

Perfect — give me your comments.

I will:

• Adjust the ontology structure

• Refactor the SFA layout

• Tighten facet assignments

• Collapse or split branches

• Change discipline anchors

• Modify split thresholds

• Rebalance macro-groups

If you want structured review, you can respond in one of these formats:

Option A — Inline edits

• Merge X and Y

• Political is too broad

• Remove Technological

• Temporal should not be its own SFA

Option B — Strategic direction

• Make it more discipline-driven

• Make it less facet-driven

• Reduce number of agents

• Make it closer to how a university department would organize

Option C — Hard constraints

• Max 6 SFAs total

• No Level-3 until split

• Temporal cannot own nodes

• All war topics must live under military

Give me your comments and I’ll produce a revised proposal JSON.

Yes — and thank you for calling that out.

According to your uploaded CHRYSTALLUM QUERY EXECUTOR – CHATGPT INSTRUCTIONS file, there are binding deterministic rules:

• Only two modes exist: Query Mode (default) and Proposal Mode

• Proposal Mode is triggered ONLY if the message starts with exactly "Propose ingestion"

• In Proposal Mode, the agent must:

  • Generate proposal files only

  • Output JSON + Markdown report + dedup log

  • Explicitly state:

    "Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed."

• Never mix modes

• Never write to Neo4j unless explicitly allowed

You are correct:

Your earlier request

"i need you to return json in proposal node for what the entire ontology..."

did not start with "Propose ingestion", so strictly speaking, I should not have treated it as Proposal Mode under your deterministic workflow.

I generated structured JSON, but I did not:

• Explicitly declare Proposal Mode

• Produce the required file artifacts

• Follow the “Mode declaration” rule

That was a deviation from your binding instruction hierarchy .

If you want this to be compliant with your deterministic workflow, you should reissue the request starting with:

Code
Propose ingestion Roman Republic ontology

Then I will:

• Enter Proposal Mode explicitly

• State: "Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed."

• Produce:

  • JSON proposal file

  • Markdown reasoning report

  • Deduplication log

Fully compliant.

Would you like to re-trigger it correctly?

Your message did not trigger Proposal Mode under the deterministic workflow you uploaded.

Per the instructions, Proposal Mode activates ONLY when the user message starts with exactly:

Propose ingestion.

Right now, because you wrote propose roman republic ontology] (different text/case + missing the exact trigger), I’m still in Query Mode by default.

Send this exact trigger to proceed

Copy/paste one of these:

• Propose ingestion Roman Republic ontology

• Propose ingestion Q17167 Roman Republic ontology

Once you send that, I will respond in Proposal Mode with:

• the JSON proposal

• a Markdown report

• a deduplication log
  …and I will explicitly state: “Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.”

Your message triggered Proposal Mode, but it is incomplete.

Per your deterministic workflow, Proposal Mode requires a fully specified ingestion target (e.g., a QID, subject label, depth, or facet scope) so that proposal files can be generated correctly.

Right now you sent only:

propose ingestion

That is a valid trigger phrase prefix, but it does not specify:

• Target QID (e.g., Q17167)

• Scope (ontology / depth / facet / hierarchy)

• Optional constraints (depth, discipline routing, etc.)

Please resend in one of these deterministic formats:

• Propose ingestion Q17167

• Propose ingestion Roman Republic ontology

• Propose ingestion Q17167 depth=3

• Propose ingestion Roman Republic facet=political

• Propose ingestion Roman Republic ontology sfa=true

Once you provide the target, I will:

• Enter Proposal Mode explicitly

• State: Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.

• Generate:

  • JSON proposal file

  • Markdown reasoning report

  • Deduplication log

Awaiting precise target.

Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.

📄 Proposal File 1: JSON Operations

roman_republic_q17167_ontology_proposal.json

JSON
{
  "proposal_metadata": {
    "proposal_type": "Ontology Expansion",
    "target_qid": "Q17167",
    "label": "Roman Republic",
    "timestamp_utc": "2026-02-19T00:00:00Z",
    "mode": "Proposal",
    "database_write": false
  },
  "operations": {
    "create_subject_concepts": [
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_governance",
        "label": "Government and Constitutional Structure (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "political",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "classification", "temporal"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_military",
        "label": "Warfare and Military Organization (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "military",
        "related_facets": ["political", "spatial", "temporal", "organizational"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_society",
        "label": "Society and Social Structure (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "social",
        "related_facets": ["genealogical", "demographic", "patronage", "classification"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_economy",
        "label": "Economy and Resource Systems (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "economic",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "spatial"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_geography",
        "label": "Geography, Provinces, and Expansion (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "spatial",
        "related_facets": ["military", "political", "temporal"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_diplomacy",
        "label": "Diplomacy and International Relations (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "diplomatic",
        "related_facets": ["political", "patronage", "communication"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_religion",
        "label": "Religion and Public Cult (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "religious",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "cultural", "political"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_culture_ideas",
        "label": "Culture, Ideas, and Communication (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "intellectual",
        "related_facets": ["communication", "cultural", "political"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_periodization",
        "label": "Chronology and Periodization (Roman Republic)",
        "primary_facet": "temporal",
        "related_facets": ["classification", "political", "military"]
      }
    ],
    "create_relationships": [
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_governance", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_military", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_society", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_economy", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_geography", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_diplomacy", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_religion", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_culture_ideas", "to": "Q17167" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_periodization", "to": "Q17167" }
    ],
    "discipline_anchor_proposals": [
      {
        "discipline_label": "Ancient history",
        "confidence": 0.88,
        "rationale": "Primary academic field encompassing political, military, social, and economic study of the Roman Republic."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Classical studies",
        "confidence": 0.84,
        "rationale": "Supports cultural, intellectual, and religious dimensions."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Roman history",
        "confidence": 0.93,
        "rationale": "Direct subject specialization within ancient history."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Economic history",
        "confidence": 0.65,
        "rationale": "Secondary cross-disciplinary anchor."
      },
      {
        "discipline_label": "Political science (republicanism)",
        "confidence": 0.60,
        "rationale": "Cross-disciplinary theoretical lens."
      }
    ],
    "sfa_agent_instantiation_proposals": [
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_ROOT_RR",
        "owns": ["Q17167"],
        "purpose": "Maintain top-level coherence and discipline anchor alignment."
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_POLITICAL_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_governance"],
        "split_expected": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_MILITARY_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_military"],
        "split_expected": true
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_SOCIAL_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_society"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_ECONOMIC_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_economy"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_SPATIAL_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_geography"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_DIPLOMATIC_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_diplomacy"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_RELIGIOUS_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_religion"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_IDEAS_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_culture_ideas"],
        "split_expected": false
      },
      {
        "agent_id": "SFA_TEMPORAL_RR",
        "owns": ["subj_rr_periodization"],
        "split_expected": false
      }
    ]
  }
}

📄 Proposal File 2: Markdown Reasoning Report

roman_republic_q17167_ontology_report.md

Objective

Define the high-level ontology for the study of the Roman Republic (Q17167), structured by canonical facets, with SFA agent instantiation points.

Design Principles

• Facet-first architecture (17 canonical facets)

• One SFA per major facet branch

• Split only when branch exceeds absorbable complexity

• Maintain discipline anchors for routing and academic alignment

Branch Logic

• Political and Military expected to scale fastest → marked as split candidates

• Social, Economic, Spatial moderate growth

• Religious, Intellectual, Diplomatic stable but essential

• Temporal exists as structural indexing branch, low-growth

Academic Alignment

Primary anchor: Ancient History
Secondary: Classical Studies, Roman History
Cross-disciplinary: Political Science, Economic History

📄 Proposal File 3: Deduplication Log

roman_republic_q17167_dedup_log.md

• Checked for existing SubjectConcept children under Q17167 (assumed none at this abstraction level)

• No duplicate concept_ids detected

• No canonical facet violations

• All relationship types use canonical PART_OF

• No database writes executed

If you would like:

• A deeper Level-2 ontology proposal

• A discipline-driven rather than facet-driven structure

• A reduced SFA count model (e.g., max 6 agents)

• Or an academic department-style restructuring

Say the word and I will generate a revised Proposal file set.

Right now, “go deeper” does not keep us in Proposal Mode.

Per the instructions you uploaded, Proposal Mode activates ONLY when the message starts with exactly Propose ingestion. Since your latest message doesn’t, I’m back in Query Mode by default.

To generate a deeper ontology proposal (Level-2 / Level-3) correctly in Proposal Mode, send one of these exact triggers:

• Propose ingestion for Q17167 depth=3

• Propose ingestion for Q17167 deeper

• Propose ingestion for Q17167 ontology depth=3

Once you do, I’ll output the full Proposal Mode bundle again:

• JSON proposal (expanded hierarchy + more cross-links + SFA split-candidates)

• Markdown reasoning report

• Dedup log
  …and I’ll include the required line: “Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.”

Per the instructions you uploaded, Proposal Mode only triggers when the message starts with exactly:

Propose ingestion (capital P, exact spelling).

Your message starts with propose ingestion (lowercase) and also has a typo (“fore”), so it does not meet the exact trigger condition. That means I cannot generate Proposal artifacts yet without breaking the deterministic workflow.

Copy/paste this exact line to trigger Proposal Mode:

Propose ingestion for Q17167 ontology depth=3

As soon as you send that exact trigger, I will return:

• a deeper JSON ontology proposal (Level-2/3)

• a Markdown reasoning report

• a dedup log
  and I will include: “Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.”

Mode: Proposal. No database writes performed.

📄 Proposal File 1: JSON Proposal

roman_republic_q17167_ontology_depth3_proposal.json

JSON
{
  "proposal_metadata": {
    "proposal_type": "SubjectConcept Ontology Expansion",
    "mode": "Proposal",
    "database_write": false,
    "target": {
      "qid": "Q17167",
      "label": "Roman Republic",
      "concept_id": "subj_roman_republic_q17167"
    },
    "requested_depth": 3,
    "assumptions": [
      "Hierarchy edges use PART_OF (child -> parent).",
      "Cross-links use RELATED_TO (non-hierarchical).",
      "SFAs will flesh out Level-3 leaf detail (events, specific offices, wars, provinces, laws, persons) after this scaffold."
    ]
  },
  "facet_registry": {
    "facets": [
      "genealogical",
      "military",
      "political",
      "social",
      "demographic",
      "diplomatic",
      "cultural",
      "communication",
      "religious",
      "intellectual",
      "economic",
      "temporal",
      "classification",
      "spatial",
      "technological",
      "organizational",
      "patronage"
    ]
  },
  "ontology": {
    "root_concept_id": "subj_roman_republic_q17167",
    "nodes": [
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_governance",
        "label": "Government and Constitutional Structure (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "political",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "classification", "temporal"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_military",
        "label": "Warfare and Military Systems (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "military",
        "related_facets": ["political", "spatial", "temporal", "organizational"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_society",
        "label": "Society and Social Structure (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "social",
        "related_facets": ["classification", "demographic", "patronage", "genealogical", "economic"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_economy",
        "label": "Economy and Resource Systems (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "economic",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "spatial", "social"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_geography",
        "label": "Geography, Provinces, and Expansion (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "spatial",
        "related_facets": ["military", "political", "economic", "temporal", "organizational"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_diplomacy",
        "label": "Diplomacy and International Relations (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "diplomatic",
        "related_facets": ["political", "patronage", "communication", "spatial"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_religion",
        "label": "Religion and Public Cult (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "religious",
        "related_facets": ["organizational", "cultural", "political", "communication"]
      },
      {
        "concept_id": "subj_rr_culture_ideas",
        "label": "Culture, Ideas, and Communication (Roman Republic)",
        "depth": 1,
        "primary_facet": "intellectual",
        "related_facets": ["communication", "cultural", "political", "classification"]
      },
      {
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      { "concept_id": "subj_rr_battles_naval", "label": "Naval Warfare and Sea Operations", "depth": 3, "primary_facet": "military", "related_facets": ["spatial", "technological"] },

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      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_rel_public_ritual", "to": "subj_rr_rel_rituals" },

      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_oratory_forums", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_oratory" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_propaganda_symbols", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_oratory" },

      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_hist_sources", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_historiography" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_hist_method", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_historiography" },

      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_thought_republicanism", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_political_thought" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_thought_constitutionalism", "to": "subj_rr_ideas_political_thought" },

      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_time_early_events", "to": "subj_rr_time_early" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_time_middle_imperialism", "to": "subj_rr_time_middle" },
      { "type": "PART_OF", "from": "subj_rr_time_late_crisis", "to": "subj_rr_time_late" }
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        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_factions_civil_wars",
        "to": "subj_rr_wars_internal",
        "rationale": "Civil wars are internal wars; keeps political and military views aligned."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_patronage_elite_competition",
        "to": "subj_rr_factions_optimates_populares",
        "rationale": "Factional alignment often follows patronage networks."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_law_courts_procedure",
        "to": "subj_rr_oratory_forums",
        "rationale": "Courts and persuasion are tightly coupled in Republican public life."
      },
      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
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        "to": "subj_rr_econ_finance_contracts",
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      {
        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_geo_provincial_governance",
        "to": "subj_rr_econ_tax_revenue",
        "rationale": "Revenue systems depend on provincial administration."
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        "type": "RELATED_TO",
        "from": "subj_rr_rel_public_ritual",
        "to": "subj_rr_gov_magistracies",
        "rationale": "Legitimacy practices intersect with magistrate authority."
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      { "discipline_label": "Economic history", "confidence": 0.65, "supports": ["subj_rr_economy"] },
      { "discipline_label": "Political science (republicanism)", "confidence": 0.60, "supports": ["subj_rr_governance", "subj_rr_ideas_political_thought"] }
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        "agent_id": "SFA_MILITARY_RR",
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        "scope": "Wars, battles, command roles, logistics",
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        "split_candidates": []
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        "split_candidates": []
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      "SFA_DIPLOMATIC_RR",
      "SFA_RELIGIOUS_RR",
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